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Whereof do they question one another ? |
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(It is) of the awful tidings, |
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Concerning which they are in disagreement. |
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Nay, but they will come to know! |
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Nay, again, but they will come to know! |
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Have We not made the earth an expanse, |
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And the high hills bulwarks ? |
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And We have created you in pairs, |
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And have appointed your sleep for repose, |
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And have appointed the night as a cloak, |
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And have appointed the day for livelihood. |
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And We have built above you seven strong (heavens), |
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And have appointed a dazzling lamp, |
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And have sent down from the rainy clouds abundant water, |
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Thereby to produce grain and plant, |
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And gardens of thick foliage. |
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Lo! the Day of Decision is a fixed time, |
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A day when the trumpet is blown and ye come in multitudes, |
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And the heaven is opened and becometh as gates, |
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And the hills are set in motion and become as a mirage. |
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Lo! hell lurketh in ambush, |
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A home for the rebellious. |
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They will abide therein for ages. |
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Therein taste they neither coolness nor (any) drink |
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Save boiling water and a paralysing cold: |
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Reward proportioned (to their evil deeds). |
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For lo! they looked not for a reckoning; |
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They called Our revelations false with strong denial. |
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Everything have We recorded in a Book. |
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So taste (of that which ye have earned). No increase do We give you save of torment. |
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Lo! for the duteous is achievement - |
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Gardens enclosed and vineyards, |
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And maidens for companions, |
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And a full cup. |
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There hear they never vain discourse, nor lying - |
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Requital from thy Lord - a gift in payment - |
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Lord of the heavens and the earth, and (all) that is between them, the Beneficent; with Whom none can converse. |
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On the day when the angels and the Spirit stand arrayed, they speak not, saving him whom the Beneficent alloweth and who speaketh right. |
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That is the True Day. So whoso will should seek recourse unto his Lord. |
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Lo! We warn you of a doom at hand, a day whereon a man will look on that which his own hands have sent before, and the disbeliever will cry: “Would that I were dust!” |
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